That exhibition helped grow Warhol's popularity and spurred the culture-driven pop art movement to really explode over the next two decades.

Marla Prather, the Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York wondered how it was possible that Warhol's breakout exhibit was "introduced to the world half a century ago." She told Business Insider that "they are still as fresh and relevant as the year they were silkscreened."

It was not just the pop cultural nature of the work that had the artistic world buzzing but, as Prather noted, "the radical nature of the instillation, arranged in a row like a supermarket shelf, was as prescient as almost anything Warhol dreamt up in those early crucial years."

Building off the success of Campbell's Soup Cans, Warhol continued to make art based on popular culture. His 1963 work Eight Elvises sold for $100 million in 2008, the highest price for any piece of art composed after 1960. Warhol made dozens of other pieces of art based on American icons like Coca-Cola, Marylin Monroe and Muhammad Ali and is considered one of the most influential artists over the last century.